Fishing near West Warwick in Kent County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Striped Bass, Sunfish, Brook Trout, Calico Bass(Black Crappie)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 178
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 256
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Top Fishing Spots near West Warwick

South Branch Pawtuxet River
South Branch Pawtuxet River

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Tiogue Lake
Tiogue Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
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Bass Pond (unnamed Aponaug)
Bass Pond (unnamed Aponaug)

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Hardig Brook
Hardig Brook

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Gorton Pond
Gorton Pond

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# Reviews: 4
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Flat River Reservoir Dam
Flat River Reservoir Dam

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
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West Warwick Area Fish Species

Recent West Warwick Fishing Reports

Plenty of trout Fishing Report Apr 11, 2013

Plenty of trout

Pawtuxet River -

Afternoon on Pawtuxet River at Centerville Fishing Area....

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Pawtuxet Bass Fishing Report Sep 26, 2012

Pawtuxet Bass

Pawtuxet River -

Nice afternoon on Pawtuxet River...

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co-worker Training  Fishing Report Sep 06, 2019

co-worker Training

Hope Pond -

Went fishing with one of my fellow co-workers Mr.Gold. He wanted to take me out and show me his old stomping grounds here in RI as i am new to fishing...

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Few hours of fishing Fishing Report Jun 08, 2009

Few hours of fishing

Roger Williams Park, -

Started in Warwick behind Erickson's tackle shop and ended at the roger williams park, 11 bass total and a broken rod. Pics are up,enjoy and was a...

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night trip Fishing Report Jun 16, 2013

night trip

john l curran -

2 hours at midnight...

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first strikes of 2010 Fishing Report May 16, 2010

first strikes of 2010

Chip Pt. Warwick -

Blues are finning and stripers are begining to hit. ...

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Baits and Tackle used near West Warwick

Check Prices

  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • drifting worms no sinker
  • A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
  • Dat Food,
    Maple Peas,
    Chick Peas
  • basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
  • Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
  • Northland Thumper chart-green, ~1/4 oz
  • Live Bluegill
  • Rubber worms, topwater baits, weedless jigs any weedless lures
  • mummies

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • pogie chunk
  • live linning pogies
  • porgy
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • meal worms
  • Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly
  • Medium sized Frog
  • mussels on hook jigging

Creature Check Prices

  • used baby brush hog
  • baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker

    palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less
  • using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
  • palm tree red skirt black trunck
  • HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS

Tube Check Prices

  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook
  • Fishing bass tube along weed edges and downed trees.
  • texas rigged
  • running a bass pro shops 3.5 inch tube. Little fish were having a hard time choking the bait down, but they managed.

Minnow Check Prices

  • menhaden
  • Hitting it real well with shinners
  • Fish where hitting hard on shiners, one hit be so hard my line broke at the bobber and the fish took it and the bobber never surfaced again!? there some very big fish here!
  • used mostly live shiners,but when they ran out I was using a spinner bait and a surface frog and hitting pickerel and base, lots of Yellow perch here as well.
  • live shiners medium size
  • Some guy bought some live shiners at Big O's and left us with a few. This one was about 3" long and brought in a 10" perch.
  • live shiners and senkos
  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • I only used topwater frogs, black buzz and some weedless ones that I picked up at bass pro. The 22" was cought on a light green weedless frog. One day I'll buy a scale...
  • Pencil bait, same as other
  • Topwater pencil bait, shoots down about 1-2 feet when you yank it, then pops back up to the surface.
  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
  • BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS

Lizard Check Prices

  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • small slgos
  • white luck-e-strike 110

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • rooster tail spinner
  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
  • yellow spinner colorado blade silver
  • white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
  • Spinnerbait
    Limit consisted of:
    2lb 5oz
    2lb 4oz
    1lb 15oz
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 6oz
  • All 10 between 1lb - 1-14lb culled or didn't make the cut
  • Mostly between 3lbs-4lbs

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • green scum frog

Squid Check Prices

  • double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala slash bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • silver/red inline spinner

    white/red spot jerk bait
  • Thomas Spinner
  • Thomas spinner
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner

Worm Check Prices

  • black rubber worms... preferably Berkly 7 inch, done up with the texas rig... or even top water poppers.. they are pretty aggressive over there.. pretty easy to catch
  • black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
  • strike king watermelon flake worm
  • clam worms
  • Red worm from Big O's.
  • Plain red worms. Big O's Bait and Tackle is just north of the Pond's main entrance on Farnum Pike. Pass the entrance on the left and look for the house (Big O's) about 3/4 mile on the left. They are open from around 5:30am until 8:30pm. $3 a tub of 26-30 redworms... several baits and jigs available.
  • 5 inch brown and green senkos
  • senko
  • black w/chart specs senkos

    wacky rig and texas

    both close to shore
  • black/chart flake senko
    yellow/green spinner
    bass pro 4.5 inch cut tail worm pumpkin seed

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
  • carolina rig
  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
  • Green rattling to Zuri
  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms
  • dark worm very slow
  • cocahoe medium speed

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • We keep 5 Bass total
    My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
  • Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
  • yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Lure (Other) Check Prices

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • First cast and I had one.

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • orange, black split center
  • small lightning stick
  • Dilly diver shad
  • Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
  • Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
  • My Limit was:
    2.27lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1lb 10oz
    Two 1-1/2lbers

  • caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
  • shallow shad rap
  • Zoom salamander
    Sunfish crank bait
  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
  • i used a jig and wacky worm.
  • green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • i was using a 1.5 inch eppinger spoon in orange with black dots.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
  • Just had the crawler on the bottem. Had the hook about 1 foot above the sinker, so the sinker got the weeds instead of the hook.
  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • very basic, traditional techs..and I never use a bobber. that way I come out with either a lmb or catfish in this spot, its a win-win situation :)
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"

Lipless Bait Check Prices

Herring Check Prices

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Red and white daredevil

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • zara spoof
  • 2 0z Zara Spook
    9" Sluggo(White)

Grub Check Prices

  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

Other Check Prices

  • porgy snagger
  • Powerbait
  • Just bread balls
  • same bait, dough bait
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • Chummed with feed corn/maple peas and a ground mix of oats/grits/bran/condensed milk/cream corn

    Hook bait was Feed corn and maple peas
  • I had a variety of bait with me, however they were only striking a pack bait made of grits, corn juice and molasses plus some other flavoring.

    roughly 24 oz quick grits
    juice from one can of corn
    a good bit of molasses
    baby rice cereal to help fluff it out

    Place one or two corn pops on the hook and then pack it pretty good into golf ball sized lumps around your hook and pops.
  • These are trout waters and by RI rules that means no chumming, no corn. So boilies, glugs and maple peas were on the menu. I had a few good hits on some homemade Scopex flavored boilies but no hook ups.

    The one I did manage to catch was on Maple peas, two on a short hair, with a 2 oz semi-fixed bolt rig.
  • Fished pogey chunks

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